Luther073082
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Please point me to the exact moment in time, in this country, where if you made public statements your employer disagreed with you could not be fired.
There wasn't, but I'm guessing that most people viewed that sort of thing pretty negatively and corporations didn't want to get people ticked off at them.
There was you know a time when people believed in other people's right to say stuff they disagreed with and typically defended that right.
Now it's just "We disagree and are angry. . . FIRE HIM"
And it won't be long before most of the public decides if they are ok with a firing just based on if they agree with what the employee said.
Conservatives don't generally get people fired for expressing views contrary to their own. But they won't hesitate to go tit for tat when they can. Liberals doing this is gonna kick off a war between the two in which the ultimate winners will again be the corporations who will use it to control even more then they already do.
Think about it. . . some employers are demanding to see your private facebook accounts now. You don't think they are slowly but surely taking control of your off the job speech? Wait until they become convinced the only correct speech is the company line and you don't say anything but the company line or else lose your job.
It's coming unless both sides decide to stand up to this sort of thing.
There is more good then bad in capitalism and private industry. I believe in capitalism with some moderate restrictions and regulations. But something bad that people should understand about capitalism is that it is the natural state of groups of people and therefore the natural state of people who run corporations to control as much as they can. If a company determines they can control all employee speech and not be punished by it's customers for it. They are gonna do so.
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